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Nothing is as bad as the demagogues and the news media make it out to be . . . after all, that’s what
keeps them both in business.
Self reliance and personal responsibility are the bane of every demagogue.
A career politician is one who has wisely chosen an occupation that relies upon prejudice, class envy, diversity,
and inequality . . . four things of which the world has an infinite supply.
The two-party system provides a broad middle-ground between good and evil, and mainly serves those who do
not care to think for themselves.
Partisan and hypocrite are synonymous .
Since the average citizen knows even less about economics than they do about the Constitution, our government
is regarded as a magical entity that can take money from everyone, give back more than it took, and make everyone better off
in the process.
The average citizen actually thinks their standard of living will be lifted by legislators simply mandating
higher wages.
Asking the average citizen where jobs, wages and prices come from is like asking a two-year-old where babies
come from.
The legislature sees its job as controlling the lives of others . . . something they never forget and never
admit.
The legislature will always ignore the Constitution wherever it conflicts with their agenda.
When people become convinced that “society” is more important than the individuals who make up society,
they become pliable . . . they can be taxed and manipulated by politicians, because altruism is no more controversial than
motherhood and apple pie.
It will always be claimed that government intrusions upon individual freedom are required to protect liberty.
Each expansion of government power creates more dependents who vote.
Whenever a government program fails, three things happen: (1) business and the private sector will somehow
be blamed, (2) the failed program’s budget will be vastly increased, and (3) more power and control will be delegated
to the failed bureaucracy.
We clearly have a national religion: Our unshakable faith in the Free Lunch.
The Democratic Party majority have been aptly defined as “determinist who discount free will and the
existence of evil, and reduce everything to economics.” (This theory seemed proven when the Democrats denounced each
Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton while applauding each investigation of Bill Gates.)
The Republican Party majority have been inappropriately defined as “conservative.” (There is nothing
conservative about out-spending all previous administrations in terms of discretionary spending, while “nation building”
6000 miles offshore.)
If the average citizen were as jealous of their withholding tax as they are jealous of those who pay their
wages, there would be more jobs, less poverty, a wealthier middle class, and abundant charity.
We can not expect liberty if we are going to be offended every time someone suggests we take responsibility
for our own welfare.
If legislators were as concerned about protecting private property and individual liberty as they are about
protecting their own job, the treasury would have a surplus.
Government is truly a “crutch for the weak”. . . not religion. Federal health, education and welfare
programs are crutches for the weak. Social Security is a crutch for the weak. Unions are a crutch for the weak. Trade barriers
are a crutch for the weak. Religion demands personal responsibility.
Capitalism, like Christianity, has not been tried and found wanting; they have both been found tedious and
difficult and cast aside in search of an easier way.
Our legislators spend 90 percent of their time reforming programs they had no legal right to create in the
first place.
Since government is an organization that thrives on coercion, fraud and violence, one should expect that voters
in a free country would elect to minimize government wherever and whenever possible. But the opposite is true, and that is
alarming.
A “living” Constitution makes as much sense as signing a long-term lease on a mobile-home site,
giving the owner the right to evict you any time he feels like it.
Just as the devil will quote Scripture for his own purpose, the Supreme Court can do the same thing with the
Constitution.
Everyone complains about corporate lobbyists buying influence from legislators, while no one is concerned
that our lawmakers have legislated themselves the inordinate influence that lobbyists are forced to buy.
Late-term abortion is legal, not for reasons of “choice” or “privacy”, but because a people
who have no sense of morality regarding theft and private property soon lose their sense of morality regarding human life
. . . and vice versa.
The same people who insist we should have the choice to kill children before they are born, think we should
have no choice about their education if they are born.
If the same people who express concern for the military-industrial complex were as suspicious of the political-bureaucratic
complex, our nation’s health, education and welfare would be in infinitely better shape.
The same people who obsess over arsenic placed in our water by nature will insist that government add fluoride.
The same people who think legislators are caring and generous because they advocate charitable programs with
other people’s money, will think the rare legislator who expresses concern about spending other people’s money is
insensitive.
The same people who object to racial profiling in law enforcement, will favor it as a criteria for job and
college placement.
The same people who are willing to send a human adult to die in a “moral war to alleviate human suffering,”
get squeamish about killing a day-old human embryo fertilized in a petri dish for medical research, that may someday relieve
the suffering and save the lives of millions.
The same people who think we will responsibly invest our FICA withholding, think we will become dope addicts
without drug prohibition.
The same people who think we are too stupid to manage our own affairs, insist that we are intelligent enough
to elect the right legislators to manage our affairs for us.
Parents don’t seem to cherish the public education monopoly nearly so much as do powerful special interest
groups.
The welfare state, socialism, fascism and other collectivist ideologies prevail in our nation because the
76.5 percent of our population that claim to be “Christian” have more faith in government than they have in God.
The “God-given ruling authority,” mentioned in Romans 13:1-7, is the Constitution; not the president,
not congress, and not the judiciary.
If the religious right were as concerned about the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth Commandments as they are
about the sixth, their “values” might be taken seriously.
If the ACLU were as concerned about the Second Amendment as they are about the First, they might actually
be considered advocates for civil liberties.
It is not the mention of “God” in the first three Commandments that troubles progressive liberals,
it’s the last seven that suggest we are responsible for our own actions that really bothers them.
Government budgets are like closet space in a house. The more closet space one has, the more junk one acquires
to fill it up . . . and the more treasury surplus a government acquires, the more programs it will create to spend it.
The media is more concerned with spin than truth, and they tend to report only that which conventional wisdom
accepts as truth.
Going along to get along may be good politics . . . but, horrible policy. Going with the flow usually carries
one into a swamp, or over a fall.
We are taught to never discuss politics or religion . . . not because it is boorish or rude, but because
it is futile. Most of us would rather have a colonoscopy than rethink our accepted dogma.
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